Rosemary Barton is the Hero We Deserve

I have a new op-ed on the Canadaland website, wherein I make the case for Rosemary Barton to be named the permanent host of CBC News Network's flagship politics show, Power & Politics. As someone who has watched a lot of politics shows (and even wrote about them for a while on Macleans.ca), she is a host that has impressed me more than any other since the days of Don Newman, and in my humble opinion, if the CBC brass were smart, they would make her the permanent host immediately and start branding the show around her with no time to spare.

Michael Chong's Reform Act is Easy to Hate. So Why Does the Media Love it?

I have a new op-ed on the Canadaland website, where I look at the one-sided coverage of Michael Chong's Reform Act on two of our national political shows, and give some critical commentary on what the one-sidedness of that coverage says about the way in which we're being served by our political media. As one of the few reporters who has looked at Chong's bill from a critical perspective, looking at other coverage has been an interesting exercise.

For Evan Solomon, Elizabeth May's Speech was a Democratic Crisis (It was not)

I have a new op-ed up on the Canadaland website, which looks at how the two main political shows covered the issue of Elizabeth May's bomb of a speech at last weekend's Press Gallery Dinner, and her subsequent apology tour. It's been a while since I've done much critical commentary of the political shows – something I didn't quite get into as much during my time writing the Politics on TV column for Maclean's, but I'm grateful that Canadaland has asked me to write more about this.

Why CANADALAND: COMMONS is possibly the worst thing for Canadian politics

I have an editorial on the Canadaland website, which is a rather scathing critique of the first episode of their new Canadaland: Commons podcast. I hadn't expected to write this piece for them – I had expressed my head-exploding disbelief with the show over Twitter with a stated intention to blog more about it later, and was immediately contacted by one of the Canadaland website producers with the offer to write it for them, on a paid basis. I accepted, wrote the piece, and soon found that I was not the only person who felt that way about the show. And kudos to Canadaland for putting critique up about their own podcast on their website.